Pollenia viatica

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Pollenia viatica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Polleniidae
Genus: Pollenia
Species:
P. viatica
Binomial name
Pollenia viatica
Synonyms

Pollenia viatica is a species of cluster fly in the family Polleniidae. [5]

Distribution

Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Bank, Yugoslavia.

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Cluster fly Genus of flies

The grass flies or cluster flies or attic flies are the genus Pollenia in the family Polleniidae are completely harmless to human health. They are strictly parasitic on earthworms; the females lay their eggs near earthworm burrows, and the larvae then feed on the worms. Cluster flies seek refuge in cold weather and find their way into attic spaces and similar areas indoors. They often emerge on warm days, and cluster at windows attempting to exit.

Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States, formerly included in the family Calliphoridae.

Polleniidae Family of flies

Polleniidae is a family of flies in the order Diptera. There are at least 6 genera and more than 190 described species placed definitively in Polleniidae, and other genera whose placement here is considered uncertain.The largest genus is Pollenia, with close to 190 species of flies commonly called "cluster flies".

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. Rohdendorf, B. B. (1926). "Morphologisches Studium an äusseren Genitalorganen der Calliphorinen (Diptera)". Russkii Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 6: 83–128.
  3. Mercier, L. (1930). "Variations de certaine pièces de l'armature génitale mâle de Pollenia rudis F. (Diptères Calliphorinae); importance de cette variation pour la notion d'espèce chez les Myodairs supérieurs". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris. 190: 320–322.
  4. Wainwright, C.J. (1940). "The British Tachinidae (Diptera): Second supplement". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 90 (14): 411–448. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1940.tb01028.x.
  5. Gisondi, Silvia; Rognes, Knut; Badano, Davide; Pape, Thomas (2020). "The world Polleniidae (Diptera, Oestroidea): key to genera and checklist of species". ZooKeys (971): 105–155. doi:10.3897/zookeys.971.51283. PMC   7538466 . PMID   33061774 . Retrieved 22 June 2021.